You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.

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The most important thing for us is to learn how to control our internal anger, and it is impossible to do this without self-awareness. When we become aware of the fact that we are filled with negative emotions, we start to understand what we are doing with those emotions and we can learn to control them.

Source: Bad Science

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